Bern BRN

It might be the capital city of a nation with more than its fair share of urban treats, but modestly-sized Bern remains somewhere unhurried and refreshingly low on pretension. It’s the medieval centre that first grabs the attention, with its mesh of meandering cobbled streets and 15th-century arcades – Goethe famously called Bern “the most beautiful that we have ever seen” – but just as emblematic of today’s city are the dynamic modern curves of the Paul Klee Museum, the wide assortment of Gault-Millau restaurants and the slick nightclub scene.